Arkansas Code Title 24, Chapter 8, Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System

• § 24-8-201 - Public Policy.
  It is declared to be the state's public policy that chancery and circuit court judges and justices of the Supreme Court may retire or...
• § 24-8-202 - Applicability.
  The provisions of this act shall not be retroactive but shall extend benefits from the time of its passage. It shall also apply to...
• § 24-8-203 - Board of Trustees.
  (a) The administration and control of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System shall be vested in a board known as the "Board of Trustees of...
• § 24-8-204 - Administration.
  (a) (1) The executive director and administrative staff of the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System shall be the executive director and administrative staff of...
• § 24-8-205 - Trust Fund.
  (a) In addition to the Judges Retirement Fund in the State Treasury, a bank trust fund or funds may be established and maintained in...
• § 24-8-206 - Annual Actuarial Valuation.
  An actuarial valuation shall be made annually to determine how well the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System is meeting the financial objectives applicable to all...
• § 24-8-207 - Membership Generally -- Prior Service Credit.
  (a) All chancery judges, circuit judges, judges of the Court of Appeals and justices of the Supreme Court, whether elected or appointed to office,...
• § 24-8-208 - [Repealed.]
• § 24-8-209 - Contributions -- Members -- Refund.
  (a) The contribution of each member of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System shall be six percent (6%) of each member's annual salary.(b) In the...
• § 24-8-210 - Contributions -- State.
  (a) The state, as employer, shall make contributions to the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System of twelve percent (12%) of the active member payroll.(b) The...
• § 24-8-211 - Contributions -- Cessation Upon Retirement.
  (a) When a judge is certified as eligible for retirement, no further contribution shall be required of the judge.(b) Upon the written notice of...
• § 24-8-212 - Credited Service -- Transfer of Service As Municipal Judge.
  Any person who shall have served as a municipal judge in any municipal court in this state and who holds credited service therefor in...
• § 24-8-213 - Credited Service -- Transfer of Fourteen Years' Service As Prosecuting Attorney.
  Any person who shall have served not less than fourteen (14) years as an elected prosecuting attorney in this state and who holds credited...
• § 24-8-214 - Credited Service -- Transfer of Four Years' Service As Prosecuting Attorney.
  Any person who shall have served not less than two (2) years as an elected prosecuting attorney in this state and who holds credited...
• § 24-8-215 - Eligibility for Benefits -- Retirement Generally.
  (a) Any active member with a minimum of ten (10) years of credited service may voluntarily retire upon reaching sixty-five (65) years of age...
• § 24-8-216 - Eligibility for Benefits -- Early Retirement.
  (a) Any judge of a circuit or chancery court who has fourteen (14) years or more of credited service in the Arkansas Judicial Retirement...
• § 24-8-217 - Eligibility for Benefits -- Disability Retirement.
  (a) Any member of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System who has served a minimum of three (3) consecutive years shall receive retirement benefits if...
• § 24-8-218 - Retirement and Survivors' Benefits Generally.
  (a) The retirement benefits to be paid an eligible and qualified member or retiree under the provisions of this section shall be sixty percent...
• § 24-8-219 - Rights of Surviving Unremarried Spouses of Certain Judges.
  (a) The surviving unremarried spouse, sixty-five (65) years of age or older, of any person who served as a justice of the Supreme Court...
• § 24-8-220 - Restrictions on Benefits.
  (a) Acts 1953, No. 365, as amended by this act, is to be in all of its sections complementary, except that no person may...
• § 24-8-221 - [Repealed.]
• § 24-8-222 - Credited Service -- Transfer of Service As Juvenile Judge.
  (a) Any member of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System who has credit in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System for service as a juvenile...
• § 24-8-223 - Redetermination of Benefits.
  (a) Each July 1 the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System shall redetermine the amount of each monthly benefit which has been payable by the system...
• § 24-8-224 - Benefits When Serving Past Mandatory Retirement Age.
  (a) Notwithstanding § 24-8-215 regarding mandatory retirement under the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System for any judge or justice upon reaching seventy (70) years of...
• § 24-8-225 - Limitation on Benefit Enhancement -- Acts 1997, No. 926.
  (a) No benefit enhancement provided for by § 24-8-214 shall be implemented if it would cause the publicly supported retirement system's unfunded actuarial accrued...
• § 24-8-226 - Minimum Benefits.
  The following minimum benefits shall apply to any plan based only on actual service under the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System: (1) The annual minimum...
• § 24-8-227 - Definition.
  Unless the context requires otherwise, any listing of judges or justices in § 24-8-201 et seq. and § 24-8-701 et seq. shall include all...
• § 24-8-228 - Proposals to Establish or Revise Benefits.
  (a) The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System shall present to the Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs...

Last modified: November 15, 2016